Word: boston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three student organizations today will ask students to donate clothing for Rosie's Place, a shelter for needy women in South Boston...
public opinion around the country last week found Americans almost unanimously against handing over the Shah to Khomeini. "We'd be groveling if we caved in now," says Boston Lawyer-Author George V. Higgins. But some consider that it was a major blunder to admit the Shah in the first place, even for medical treatment. Above all, there is frustration and anger. Willard Hedrick, owner of a construction company...
...limitations, there is no rigorous monitoring of foreigners once they get into the country. The U.S. resembles a sieve-the easiest country in the world to get into or out of without permission. "Our society is not that interested in keeping tabs on "people," says an INS official in Boston. "We operate on an honor system." The Iranian students who want to beat the system obviously...
...Episcopal nun now stationed in Boston had a very special Thanksgiving last week-and so did the people she had helped. In 1951 Sister Anne Marie Bickerstaff, a native of Richmond, Va., had gone to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to teach at a missionary school. She became impressed by the musical ability of some of her students, and was distressed that the island had no music school, no concert hall and no national orchestra...
...word of the nun's project spread, small donations began flowing in from around the world. By 1971 the orchestra had become known as the Holy Trinity Philharmonic. The nun even persuaded members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to visit Haiti to work with the Philharmonic. In 1976 she managed to raise $60,000 to send the 60-member orchestra to Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony in the Massachusetts Berkshires...